Letter 788
Nilus of Ancyra→Theodore|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To the same person.
If we have often profited by meeting with some good man, how great gains shall we make when, by day and by night, we converse through prayer and psalmody with the Master of all things [God, the Lord of the universe]?
Εἰ πολλάκις ὠφελήθημεν ἀνδρὶ τινι ἀγαθῷ συντυ-
χόντες, πηλίκα κερδανοῦμεν, μεθ' ἡμέραν καὶ νύκτα
προσδιαλεγόμενοι δι' εὐχῆς καὶ ψαλμῳδίας τῷ Δε-
σπότῃ τῶν ὅλων;
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To the same person.
If we have often profited by meeting with some good man, how great gains shall we make when, by day and by night, we converse through prayer and psalmody with the Master of all things [God, the Lord of the universe]?
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.
Latin / Greek Original
Εἰ πολλάκις ὠφελήθημεν ἀνδρὶ τινι ἀγαθῷ συντυ-
χόντες, πηλίκα κερδανοῦμεν, μεθ' ἡμέραν καὶ νύκτα
προσδιαλεγόμενοι δι' εὐχῆς καὶ ψαλμῳδίας τῷ Δε-
σπότῃ τῶν ὅλων;
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